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‘It Makes Good Economic Sense to Reduce Emissions’

-- Mike -- 02/23/2007

Foster's Daily Democrat reported yesterday on a global warming panel discussion at the University of New Hampshire earlier this week. Lots of interesting stuff, but I think this is particularly worth highlighting:

Tom Kelly, director of the university's Office of Sustainability, said the university is hard at work on reducing emissions on campus. UNH has been identified as a "climate protection campus," and interim president J. Bonnie Newman recently joined 67 other schools in signing the University President's Climate Commitment, which asks colleges and universities to identify their greenhouse gas output and develop a plan to reduce those emissions over the next three years.

"It makes good economic sense to reduce emissions. It also makes good ecological sense and good public health sense," Kelly said.